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| WRVO 2008 Election Coverage |
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Welcome to the Interactive American Public Media Widget Page. Select from the following: More on the way! Stay tuned.
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| Be a Budget Hero |

Budget Hero is an engaging and journalistically sound game that encourages players to think through the complexities and challenges of the federal budget and the major policy issues of the 2008 election. It frames the policy debate as a set of federal budget choices determining how money will be raised and spent. Budget Hero forces players make trade offs and confront compromises inherent in balancing a budget. Can they be Budget Heroes by staying true to their values while creating a sustainable government?
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| Idea Generator - Healthcare |
The Health Care Idea Generator is an online activity that allows you to share ideas and solutions regarding America's health care system. It's widely accepted that the American health care system is broken. But depending where you find yourself within the system, "broken" can mean different things to different people.
The Idea Generator asks caregivers, insurers, employers, the insured and the uninsured, "What challenges have you seen … and how can we tackle them?"
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Select A Candidate is an online game created by American Public Media which allows you to respond to a variety of the questions Presidential candidates are being asked. You choose the response that best fits your opinion and rank the importance of that particular issue to them. Based on your responses and the responses of all major party candidates, the game reflects back to you which candidates most closely fit your values.
In addition to identifying which candidate best reflects your opinions, Select A Candidate displays all the candidates and the points on which you agree or disagree with each candidate's platform. The game also displays cumulative results from all users and research citations for each stated position.
This game does not tell you how to vote, but introduces you to each candidate and that candidate's position on issues important to you. The "Candidate Position" section of the game provides an excellent documented summary of the positions of all major party candidates on today's issues. The game also contains instructions and "Frequently Asked Questions" about how the scoring, questions, ranking and data collection works.
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